LPPM MMV "Siegel"

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 10 19:31:51 CDT 2004



Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
>      "Just as Siegel got to the address Rachel had
> given him it started to rain again...."  (MMV, p. 1)
> 
> Siegel
> 
> Who is Jules Siegel?

Jules? A Jewish Catholic boy from the Bronx? 

Seems to me that Jules has little to do with the story or the characters
in it. 


Protestant-Catholic-Jew 
An Essay in American Religious Sociology 
by Will Herberg, Martin E. Marty,
Illustrator 

http://www.semcoop.com/detail/0226327345

Measure For Measure is Shakespeare's most "Catholic" Play. 

Shakespeare, like Pynchon, was a Catholic-Puritan. 

Worth considering that P alludes to Joyce too. The Hungarian Bloom. 

P was light-years ahead of Updike.



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